I am new to git. my remote git server does not allow me to push anything without having a commit message.
Now i want to convert my perforce code to git using git p4 and push the converted code as a ...

I need an elegant solution to store my dotfiles on GitHub for easy access. I tried to create a dotfiles directory and symlink all the dotfiles into there. Then I tried adding the symlinks to git and ...

I don't know if this even possible or not.
I was wondering if there is any way like SSH Agent forwarding by which we can forward our .gitconfig on the remote server, and git automatically picks the ...

The problem seems to occur straight from the time I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I first realized this problem when I was trying to connect with my hosting at HostGator. I neglected and thought ...

I work on a Linux system in a Windows environment. To authenticate with a NT proxy server I had setup cntlm and configured system programs to use it via setting http_proxy environment variable in the ...

I am mirroring a Subversion repository tag with svn2git and I want to be sure that when I checkout particular revisions, those I obtain from the git mirror match those from Subversion. My main problem ...

I need to fetch the object of an annotated tag (i.e. the annotation message) from a remote repository and so far there doesn't seem to be a command for that (i.e. ls-remote provides only the refs but ...

If tig is invoked with tig log some/file.txt the log will show all commits affecting that file. Pressing Enter on a line like commit d5dd1d658e5d79701fb9d028479a0fcb26a033fa will open the diff view ...

I am trying to git clone a repo off of bitbucket. I use git clone {https} temp. This gives me an error of refs not found. The https address is the one I get off of bitbucket, but the one they provide ...

This is hopefully a very simple git question but I haven't been able to find the answer, most info about git assumes you want to upload and merge changes and my situation is much simpler than this.
I ...

Due to a new job, I'm switching from working on Ubuntu 14.04 to OSX Yosemite.
I mainly work in R, and I was using RStudio and git to manage my code on a server (Debian). To this I mounted the server ...

I'm looking for a way to get three informations from a remote repository using git ls-remote like command. I would like to use it in a bash script running in a cron. Currently, if I do
git ls-remote ...

Since two days I'm struggling with making Gitweb work on my home server machine. I've modified so many configuration files till now, that I've decided to completely remove the Gitweb package from my ...

I have the following line in my zshrc to make filename completions case-insensitive:
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
This works most of the time but I’ve noticed that if I ...

I'm currently trying, for fun, to build a package management system (similar to apt / yum / zypper, etc...) using the git revision system, and I' searching for a way to know what is the latest stable ...

The OSX implementation of sshfs doesn't like to connect to my Android phone running SSHDroid, so I'm attempting to gain access by mounting an ubuntu VM via sshfs which in turn has a mountpoint to the ...